It occurd hurry because time of revision is already over that the study is concerned with overseas election for revison of Public Official Election Act, It starts from a critical mind the meaning of judgement of constitutional court and guarantee of ...
It occurd hurry because time of revision is already over that the study is concerned with overseas election for revison of Public Official Election Act, It starts from a critical mind the meaning of judgement of constitutional court and guarantee of voting right by constitutions and view of election of principle isn't correct. Materially, the first start of overseas election study deductive, all steps for main subject that is overseas election, especially view of realization by the constitution for election principle. It try to present that what is reasonable solution that apply for reality of our country, especially it try to present effective and reasonable way of "Liberty of election and Guarantee of rightness" and guarantee of basic right of citizen which are two big theme of election
Citizen have right of voting by constitutional law, which says votings of usualness, equality, directness and secret that are election's four basic rules. Especially, these rules of constitution law just have authorization of concern with detail things of right of voting in the law not to limit rightness of election but to action right of election and to mean guarantee for forbearance. Right of voting is the best basic right of citizen that is represented expression of sovereignty, and it is superior to other basic rules. Therefore, lawmakers respect principle of election that is written in clear statement in the constitutional law and when they are making election act, they should have to not deal a person's right of election a poor deck
Because the liberty of election is premised on freely opinion of citizen in democracy system of election, the liberty of election beyond the rightness of election. Therefore rightness of election have not the meaning if there is no liberty of election. In spite of that, current system of overseas election is insufficient in that it focuses on the purpose of achievement of rightness of voting, not on the purpose of principle of equality of voting and guarantee of effective action of voting right.
Overseas election should be established the foundation of one organic system at each part of overseas election system such as election which overseas election concerned, scope of who has the right of voting, management agency, electoral register, election campaign and cost, the process of overseas election and ballot counting, controls over election crime.
About the Congressman election, it is a discrimination that person who has the denizenship can not get the right to vote of regional congressman election in spite of having same nationality of Korea as others who live in Korea's territoy and has regident registration. Also it is not correspondent to the judgement of constitutional court.
Election campaign abroad is so limited in comparative with that of Korea inside, because we have no experience of overseas election, so we think it is very difficult to confirm rightness of election abroad and there is some concern about collision of sovereignty and diplomatic relations of each country. Therefore if lawmakers are to expand the legal range of election campaign abroad, it will obtain the rightness of constitutional.
But liberty of election is guaranteed by constitution, we should find the method of whic can maximize the way of election campaign abroad.
Current system of overseas election forces voters who want to cast a vote to go to the polls which is situated at a diplomatic office in the foreign country ; it doesn't permit voting by mail and only 1 polling station can be established inside the diplomatic office. That's beyond the inconvenience. That makes right of voting useless and absolutely it can not be accepted in the aspect of constitutional law. So lawmakers should permit the voting by mail even if in limited extent.
It is important not only to support the liberty of election but also to obtain the rightness of election at the overseas election. In the process of overseas election, it is necessary to establish fair and neutral agency and have it manage the whole process of overseas election fairly and neutrally. All Voters who has the legal right to vote must be enrolled voter's list and we have to make the process of enrollment easy for In the course of voting and ballot counting, we must improve the system of overseas election in order to minimize the possibility that unfairness can be intervened, especially we should explore every possible avenue to protect election crime and to deal with it rapidly and strictly when it happened.